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  2. List of Christian martyrs - Wikipedia

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    Peter of Verona, 1252 by Cathars - Canonized 11 months after his death; the fastest in history. Martyrs of Sandomierz, 1260; Antonio Pavoni, 1374 by Waldensians; Tsar Lazar, 1389 [75] Nicholas Tavelic, 1391; John of Nepomuk, 1393 [76] Jan Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416) - executed for heresy by the Roman Catholic Council of Constance

  3. Apostles in the New Testament - Wikipedia

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    Pope Benedict XVI, The Apostles. Full title is The Origins of the Church – The Apostles and Their Co-Workers. published 2007, in the US: ISBN 978-1-59276-405-1; different edition published in the UK under the title: Christ and His Church – Seeing the face of Jesus in the Church of the Apostles, ISBN 978-1-86082-441-8. Carson, D.A.

  4. Christian martyr - Wikipedia

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    The Bible reports the martyrdom of two of the apostles. Thus, within the lifetime of the Apostles, the term martyrs came to be used in the sense of a witness who at any time might be called upon to deny what he testified to, under penalty of death.

  5. Thomas the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    Thomas the Apostle (Greek: Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized: Tʾōmā, meaning "the twin"), [a] also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.

  6. Bartholomew the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    The Qur'anic account of the disciples of Jesus does not include their names, numbers, or any detailed accounts of their lives. Muslim exegesis, however, more or less agrees with the New Testament list and holds that the disciples included Peter, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, Andrew, James, Jude, James the Less, John and Simon the Zealot ...

  7. John the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    John the Apostle is traditionally believed to be one of two disciples (the other being Andrew) recounted in John 1:35–39, who upon hearing the Baptist point out Jesus as the "Lamb of God", followed Jesus and spent the day with him, thus becoming the first two disciples called by Jesus.

  8. Judas Iscariot - Wikipedia

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    The Kiss of Judas by Giotto di Bondone (between 1304 and 1306) depicts Judas's identifying kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas Iscariot (/ ˈ dʒ uː d ə s ɪ ˈ s k æ r i ə t /; Biblical Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης, romanized: Ioúdas Iskariṓtēs; died c. 30 – c. 33 AD) was, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, one of the original Twelve Apostles of ...

  9. Andrew the Apostle - Wikipedia

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    Andrew the Apostle was born to a Jewish family in Bethsaida, in Galilee, [9] possibly between 5 and 10 AD [10] The New Testament states that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, [11] and likewise a son of Jonah. "The first striking characteristic of Andrew is his name: it is not Hebrew, as might have been expected, but Greek, indicative of a ...